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One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century - he wasnt a prime minister or an archbishop of Canterbury. He was an almost unknown, and self-taught, speech therapist named Lionel Logue, whom one newspaper in the 1930s famously dubbed The Quack who saved a King. Logue wasnt a British aristocrat or even an Englishman - he was a commoner a One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century - he wasnt a prime minister or an archbishop of Canterbury. He was an almost unknown, and self-taught, speech therapist named Lionel Logue, whom one newspaper in the 1930s famously dubbed The Quack who saved a King. Logue wasnt a British aristocrat or even an Englishman - he was a commoner and an Australian to boot. Nevertheless it was the outgoing, amiable Logue who single-handedly turned the nervous, tongue-tied Duke of York into one of Britains greatest kings after his brother, Edward VIII, abdicated in 1936 over his love of Mrs Simpson. This is the previously untold story of the remarkable relationship between Logue and the haunted future King George VI, written with Logues grandson and drawing exclusively from his grandfather Lionels diaries and archive. It throws an extraordinary light on the intimacy of the two men, and the vital role the Kings wife, the late Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, played in bringing them together to save her husbands reputation and reign. The Kings Speech: How One Man Saved the British Monarchy is an astonishing insight into a private world. Logues diaries also reveal, for the first time, the torment the future King suffered at the hands of his father George V because of his stammer. Never before has there been such a personal portrait of the British monarchy - at a time of its greatest crisis - seen through the eyes of an Australian commoner who was proud to serve, and save, his King.

One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century - he wasnt a prime minister or an archbishop of Canterbury. He was an almost unknown, and self-taught, speech therapist named Lionel Logue, whom one newspaper in the 1930s famously dubbed The Quack who saved a King. Logue wasnt a British aristocrat or even an Englishman - he was a commoner a One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century - he wasnt a prime minister or an archbishop of Canterbury. He was an almost unknown, and self-taught,...  Read More